Peugeot 3008: ‘Perfect for the Pyrenees – or the school run’

Peugeot's comfortable new SUV offers cycling correspondent Jeremy Whittle a front row seat to all the action at this year's Tour de France

Peugeot 3008
Price 25,395
0-62mph 10.8 seconds
Top speed 117mph
MPG 68.9
CO2 from 109g/km
Eco score a...a...a...a...a

Few riders have dominated the world of cycling like Eddy Merckx. Known to all who feared him as the "Cannibal" because of his voracious appetite for devouring opponents, he is also often cited as the world's most famous Belgian - that's if you don't count Jacques Brel, Eden Hazard or Jean-Claude Van Damme. In all he won five Tours de France, the first coming exactly 50 years ago, just as Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon. In honour of Merckx, and maybe all stellar performers, this year's Tour started in Brussels, not far from his place of birth.